About This Book

A practical hands-on guide to improving your business with the power of BI and Quicksight

Immerse yourself with an end-to-end journey for effective analytics using QuickSight and related services

Packed with real-world examples with Solution Architectures needed for a cloud-powered Business Intelligence service

Who This Book Is For

This book is for Business Intelligence architects, BI developers, Big Data architects, and IT executives who are looking to modernize their business intelligence architecture and deliver a fast, easy-to-use, cloud powered business intelligence service.

What You Will Learn

Steps to test drive QuickSight and see how it fits in AWS big data eco system

Load data from various sources such as S3, RDS, Redshift, Athena, and SalesForce and visualize using QuickSight

Understand how to prepare data using QuickSight without the need of an IT developer

Secure your data used for QuickSight from S3, RedShift, and RDS instances

Manage users, access controls, and SPICE capacity

In Detail

Amazon QuickSight is the next-generation Business Intelligence (BI) cloud service that can help you build interactive visualizations on top of various data sources hosted on Amazon Cloud Infrastructure. QuickSight delivers responsive insights into big data and enables organizations to quickly democratize data visualizations and scale to hundreds of users at a fraction of the cost when compared to traditional BI tools.

This book begins with an introduction to Amazon QuickSight, feature differentiators from traditional BI tools, and how it fits in the overall AWS big data ecosystem. With practical examples, you will find tips and techniques to load your data to AWS, prepare it, and finally visualize it using QuickSight. You will learn how to build interactive charts, reports, dashboards, and stories using QuickSight and share with others using just your browser and mobile app.

The book also provides a blueprint to build a real-life big data project on top of AWS Data Lake Solution and demonstrates how to build a modern data lake on the cloud with governance, data catalog, and analysis. It reviews the current product shortcomings, features in the roadmap, and how to provide feedback to AWS.

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Style and approach

This book takes a fast-paced, example-driven approach to demonstrate the power of QuickSight to improve your business efficiency. Every chapter is accompanied with a use case that shows the practical implementation of the step being explained.

NOTE â A new version of the Amazon QuickSight User Guide is available at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B076453HGY

This is official Amazon Web Services (AWS) documentation for Amazon QuickSight. This documentation is offered for free here as a Kindle book, or you can read it online or in PDF format at https://aws.amazon.com/documentation/quicksight/.

Amazon QuickSight is a fast business analytics service to build visualizations, perform ad hoc analysis, and quickly get business insights from your data. QuickSight seamlessly discovers AWS data sources, enables organizations to scale to hundreds of thousands of users, and delivers fast and responsive query performance by using a robust in-memory engine (SPICE).

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